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Steam used to accept BTC payments in 2016 but they didn't want to deal with the probabilistic finality of bitcoin so they quickly removed the btc option. previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30478262

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In 2016 this wasn't a solved problem but today it is

How is it fixed today? I'm not in the bitcoin game but doesn't the transaction have to be mined and that takes at least 10 minutes?

The landscape of third party companies who offer transaction insurance has increased. With bitcoin you have the lightning network.

The lightning network is a "solution" to Bitcoin in the same way that buying a new car fixes the old one.

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